A geography
data item is a category whose values are mapped to geographical locations or regions. Geography
data items can be used with geo maps and
network diagrams to visualize your data on a geographic map.
You might create a customized geography data item to identify geographic information
that is specific to your organization (for example,
sales regions, warehouse locations, oil platforms, and so on). For each unique combination
of category values, latitude values, and longitude values, a point is plotted on the
geographic map.
See Define a Geography Data Item By Using a Custom Geographic Role.
Note: For predefined geographic
roles, the values of your geography data items must match the lookup
values that are used by SAS Visual Analytics. To view the lookup values,
see
http://support.sas.com/va72geo.